unit3 warmingup & reading

选修七 Unit 3 Under the Sea
Period 1 Warming up and intensive reading
-------Old Tom The Killer Whale
一 Teaching goals
1. knowledge aims
⑴ help the students know more about animals and plants under the sea.
⑵ let students think about human beings and whale hunting.
⑶ have students read the passage and know about Old Tom.
2.Abilty aims
⑴ develop students’ reading ability and let them learn different reading skills.
⑵ enable students to be clear about the stories of Old Tom
⑶ let students know about the cruel fact that hunman beings hunt whales by using killer whales.
3. Emotional aims
⑴ develop students’ sense of loving and protecting plants and animals under the sea.
⑵ develop students’ sense of cooperative learning.
二．Teaching important points
1. have students understand the two anecdotes deeply.
2. have students understand the relationship between killer whales and whalers.
三．Teaching difficult point
Enable students to be clear about the relationship the killers and the whalers.
四．Teaching methods
1. Task-based teaching and learning
2. cooperative learning
五．Teaching procedures
Step1. Warming up
Show some pictures of plants and animals under the sea. Ask students to name them.
Step2. Pre-reading
Read the background about the text and get the key information about the background of the text.
Writer
occupation
Style
time
Place
Main idea
Step3. Reading
Task1. Fast-reading.
Scan the text, and answer the following questions:
1. Who is Old Tom How many characters are there in the text Who are they What is their relationship
2. What is the first anecdote about And how about the second one
Task2. Careful-reading.
Activities of killer whales in the sea Why did they behave like this
1. to see Old Tom________itself out of the water and then_______________again. Telling us____________and another whaler yelled out to announce___________________
2. looked down into the water and see Old Tom__________and___________back to the boat. Showing us__________________and leading us___________________
3. using a telescope I could see a whale__________Killers are working________. Some whales are throwing themselves_____________________, while others are stopping_____________________Then they started ____________like a pack of excited dogs. Helping whalers________ the whale.
4. The body of the whale was________________of the sea.
5. Old Tom and the others will______________its lips and tongue.
6.Old Tom won’t let the shark_______. I saw James______________________in the water by Old Tom. _________whalers from dangerrous sharks.
Task3. Post-reading.
1.We can infer from the text that____.
A. The killer whales may be trained by the whalers.
B. The killer whales want to help man catch the whales themselves
C. The killer whales need no training for helping the whalers
D. The killer whales want to eat the whales after killing them
2. From the text, we can know ____
A. it is impossible for us to make friends with animals
B. it is possible for us to make friends with animal
C. People shouldn’t make friends with animal
D. People should protect animals
Task4. Consolidation
At 16, I finally got the chance to ______it with my own eyes that the killers helped catch the huge whales. One afternoon, I was sorting out my ______ at the station when I was called out for a whale hunt. As we ______ into the bay by boat, I saw a killer, called Old Tom, showing us the way. Using the ____, we could see something happening. As we ____ closer, I could see a whale being attacked by a ____ of six other killers. Being badly wounded, the whale died soon. Soon its body was ____ by the killers down into the ____ of the sea. They would________on its lips and tongue and left its body to the whalers.
Despite being ______ hunters, Old Tom and the other killers were friends of human beings. During one hunt, James was ________the boat. His frightened expression told me that he was terrified of _________ by us. To my surprise, Old Tom saved him and held him up in the water.
Step4. Homework.
1.Read the passage loudly again and again
2.Underline difficult words,phrases and sentences.